The London Minute ⏰ Wednesday 30 October 2024
The London Minute ⏰ Wednesday 30 October 2024
Euston rush chaos breakthrough, triple stabbing, cinema closure, fears for the beer mile + Frank the goose finds fame
🌤️ Good morning London. There’s no newsletter tomorrow but it should return on Friday. Here’s Wednesday’s London Minute.
💰 Today’s UK Government Budget announcement (due around 12.30pm) could bring significant news for London’s infrastructure and transport. - Here’s a preview from Tom Edwards, the BBC’s Transport & Environment correspondent.
🚨 Quite a lot of crime updates this morning, starting with at least three separate stabbing incidents all reported yesterday:
A 19-year-old-man was airlifted to hospital after suffering a stab injury in Leyton last night. - Waltham Forest Echo.
Another stabbing yesterday was reported in Haringey. - Berk Uyal, Tottenham & Wood Green Independent.
A third man was taken to hospital after being stabbed in Islington. - Berk Uyal, Islington Gazette.
A man who was stabbed in Balham on Monday has died in hospital. - Rafi Mauro-Benady, My London.
Detectives are appealing for help to identify a woman in connection with a hate crime in Homerton on Sunday where a man had a glass bottle smashed on his face. - The Met Police published CCTV images here.
Details emerged yesterday of a shooting in Canning Town on Saturday night. - Police say two men were shot and are in hospital.
⮑ ‘Gunman on the run’ is The Independent’s headline.
🚉 Finally some better news for Euston station users: Passengers will be allowed to board some services early in an attempt to ease persistent overcrowding. Network Rail will allow passengers to board around 40% of Avanti West Coast services from the station 20 minutes before departure. That is expected to to rise to 55% of trains in the weeks running up to Christmas. - More details in Jack Simpson’s report for The Guardian.
🚏 ‘Floating bus stops’: A member of the London Assembly has renewed her call for Sadiq Khan to “pause” the rollout of all forms of bus stop bypass in London due to concerns about their safety for blind people and other pedestrians. - Dave Hill, On London.
🏠 Mayor Sadiq Khan has apologised to homeless children who will spend Christmas in ‘unsuitable’ temporary accommodation, describing it as a ‘scandal’. - Lottie Elton, Big Issue.
🏠 South London landlord Lexadon has been ‘forced to cough up £15,290 to tenants after failing to get proper paperwork for one of their 750 properties’, reports Brixton Buzz.
🏠 Some Old Kent Road residents have greeted the council’s plan for tens of thousands more homes in the area over the next eighteen years with ‘trepidation’ – fearing gentrification and saying they would prefer more youth centres. Southwark Council says 7,000 would be ‘affordable’, including at least 5,000 properties at the cheapest social rents. - Robert Firth, Local Democracy Reporter, Southwark News.
🏗️ An Earls Court building that survived The Blitz could be bulldozed for new school and 91 flats. Councillors will vote next week. - Adrian Zorzut, Senior Local Democracy Reporter, My London.
🔥 London Fire Brigade has announced that firefighters will no longer attend automatic alarms in most non-residential buildings – unless they are told a fire is definitely happening. - Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter, Haringey Community Press.
⮑ Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters tackled a fire at an industrial unit being used as a suspected cannabis factory in Peckham. - Isabel Ramirez, Southwark News.
🍻 Last week’s closure of Wild Card Brewery has sparked concerns about other E17 venues. - Ross Lydall reports on the Blackhorse beer mile for The Standard.
🎞️ Catford Mews cinema in Lewisham has suddenly closed as the building has been repossessed by its landlord. - Darryl Chamberlain, The Greenwich Wire.
⮑ The cinema owners posted this plea for help on Instagram.
⚽️ The Football Association has apologised to a Muslim footballer after she was barred from playing in a match for refusing to wear shorts due to her religious beliefs. - Tom Ambrose, The Guardian.
🌊 Chris Packham, Bear Grylls, Carol Vorderman and Johnny Flynn are among those backing Sunday’s planned March for Clean Water. - Lydia Chantler-Hicks, The Standard.
🧸 You can now stay in Paddington’s family home on Airbnb. - Amy Houghton, Time Out.
🎇 Here’s a guide to firework displays and bonfire night events across all London boroughs on and around 5 November. - Laura Reynolds, Londonist.
🪿 City Hall members say they’ve adopted a goose and named him Frank. The Egyptian goose has become known for pecking at his own reflection in the glass windows of the Greater London Authority headquarters. London Assembly chair Andrew Boff told ITV News: “Frank has adopted us and we've adopted him to be honest.”
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